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Senate Amendment 3318

Amendment Text

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  1  1    Amend House File 643, as amended, passed, and
  1  2 reprinted by the House, as follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 1, by inserting before line 1 the
  1  4 following:
  1  5    "Section 1.  Section 256.7, subsection 21,
  1  6 paragraph c, Code 2001, is amended to read as follows:
  1  7    c.  A requirement that all school districts and
  1  8 accredited nonpublic schools annually report to the
  1  9 department and the local community the district-wide
  1 10 progress made in attaining student achievement goals
  1 11 on the academic and other core indicators and the
  1 12 district-wide progress made in attaining locally
  1 13 established student learning goals.  The school
  1 14 districts and accredited nonpublic schools shall
  1 15 demonstrate the use of multiple assessment measures in
  1 16 determining student achievement levels.  A school
  1 17 district shall offer alternatives to traditional
  1 18 standardized testing in alternative options education
  1 19 schools and programs in order to assess the actual
  1 20 performance level of students in those schools and
  1 21 programs.  Students in alternative options education
  1 22 schools and programs who elect to participate in
  1 23 traditional standardized testing, as provided at other
  1 24 attendance centers in the district, shall be provided
  1 25 the opportunity to participate in the traditional
  1 26 standardized testing.  The school districts and
  1 27 accredited nonpublic schools may report on other
  1 28 locally determined factors influencing student
  1 29 achievement.  The school districts and accredited
  1 30 nonpublic schools shall also report to the local
  1 31 community their results by individual attendance
  1 32 center."
  1 33    #2.  Page 3, by inserting after line 27 the
  1 34 following:
  1 35    "Sec.    .  Section 257.11, subsection 4, paragraph
  1 36 a, Code 2001, is amended to read as follows:
  1 37    a.  In order to provide additional funding to
  1 38 school districts for programs serving at-risk pupils
  1 39 in grades nine through twelve and alternative school
  1 40 pupils in secondary schools, a supplementary weighting
  1 41 plan for at-risk pupils is adopted.  A supplementary
  1 42 weighting of forty-eight ten-thousandths per pupil
  1 43 shall be assigned to the percentage of pupils in a
  1 44 school district enrolled in grades one through six, as
  1 45 reported by the school district on the basic
  1 46 educational data survey for the base year, who are
  1 47 eligible for free and reduced price meals under the
  1 48 federal National School Lunch Act and the federal
  1 49 Child Nutrition Act of 1966, 42 U.S.C. } 1751-1785,
  1 50 multiplied by the budget enrollment in the school
  2  1 district; and a supplementary weighting of one hundred
  2  2 fifty-six one-hundred-thousandths per pupil shall be
  2  3 assigned to pupils included in the budget enrollment
  2  4 of the school district.  Amounts received as
  2  5 supplementary weighting for at-risk pupils shall be
  2  6 utilized by a school district to develop or maintain
  2  7 at-risk pupils' programs, which may include
  2  8 alternative school programs.
  2  9    Sec.    .  Section 257.11, subsection 6, Code 2001,
  2 10 is amended to read as follows:
  2 11    6.  a.  PUPILS INELIGIBLE.  A Except as provided in
  2 12 paragraph "b", a pupil eligible for the weighting plan
  2 13 provided in section 256B.9 is not eligible for
  2 14 supplementary weighting pursuant to this section.  A
  2 15 pupil attending an alternative program or an at-risk
  2 16 pupils' program, including alternative high school
  2 17 programs, is not eligible for supplementary weighting
  2 18 under subsection 2.
  2 19    b.  PUPILS ELIGIBLE.  At-risk pupils enrolled in
  2 20 alternative schools or classes organized by
  2 21 cooperating school districts are eligible for
  2 22 supplementary weighting under subsection 2."
  2 23    #3.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  2 24 
  2 25 
  2 26                               
  2 27 WALLY E. HORN
  2 28 HF 643.501 79
  2 29 kh/pj
     

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